CrBr3 is an excellent realization of the two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnet, which offers a bosonic equivalent of graphene with Dirac magnons and topological character. We perform inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation to update 50-year-old data, thereby enabling a definitive comparison both with recent experimental claims of a significant gap at the Dirac point and with theoretical predictions for thermal magnon renormalization. We demonstrate that CrBr3 has next-neighbor J2 and J3 interactions approximately 5\% of J1, an ideal Dirac magnon dispersion at the K point, and the associated signature of isospin winding. The magnon lifetime and the thermal band renormalization show the universal T2 evolution expected from an interacting spin-wave treatment, but the measured dispersion lacks the predicted van Hove features, highlighting the need for a deeper theoretical analysis.
@article{arxiv.2204.11355,
title = {Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet CrBr$_3$},
author = {S. E. Nikitin and B. Fåk and K. W. Krämer and T. Fennell and B. Normand and A. M. Läuchli and Ch. Rüegg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11355},
year = {2022}
}